Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 5500–3500 BC (Middle Archaic period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Mesoamerican Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- MAI agent
- Theodoor de Booy (Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy), Non-Indian, 1882-1919
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by Theodoor de Booy (1882-1919, MAI staff member) from an unknown source in Cuba in 1914 during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Place
- Oaxaca State; Mexico
- See related items
- Mesoamerican Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 3/5470
- Barcode
- 035470.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Bifacial tool/projectile point (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Obsidian
- Techniques
- Flaked/chipped, flaked/chipped
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_38079